The content of this paper is derived from work carried out at Oxford University, which was built upon the principles detailed in the original paper but complimented with some automation courtesy of vSphere PowerCLI. Additional information is available in the VMworld sessions INF-BCO2155 “vCloud DR for Oxford University Computing Services – Real World Example” and INF-VSP2164 “Automation of vCloud Director Disaster Recovery”.

I would like to thank Alan for his support in getting this paper published and Gary Blake for helping build the Oxford University vCloud DR solution. Last but not I need to thank Adrian Parks and Jon Hutchings from Oxford University Computing Services, for working with us on this project and trusting us with their vCloud.